Okay, the scan finished and said it found corrupt files, but was unable to fix some of them.
Regardless, this seems to have fixed my login problem. Thank you guys so much.
I did the first thing, and it stopped booting in Safe Mode. But I'm still having the same problems at the login screen. Nothing but the cursor and those two buttons. CTRL+ALT+DEL still does nothing.
I'm at that key, but I don't know what I'm looking for in it.
What about the OS thing? It says in the Data column "Windows_NT". Could I change that to "Windows" and get it to boot normally? Or should I just leave that alone?
Yeah, I've done the Last Good Configuration thing. Still boots into Safe Mode. But it gets to the logon screen and doesn't show me anything. Just the Ease of Access and Shutdown buttons and the cursor. No login stuff. It seems like Windows does boot just fine- or at least, it thinks it...
Running Windows 7 Ultimate N x86 on a Dell Inspiron 6400
I used MSConfig to set the computer to boot into Safe Mode - Minimal Services. I did nothing else. That's the only thing I did.
Now when it gets to the login screen, nothing shows up. Just the cursor, the Ease of Access button, and...